bad coworker...

From: co-worker
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:56 PM
To: Boss-type
Cc: Me; co-worker
Subject: Phone Consumer Trial


Sarah,

I got as much finished with the Consumer trials today/tonight as I could. There are 66 incidents left that need to be moved. I'm sorry I couldn't finished. [Me] was supposed to have been helping me and I'm not sure what happened. I had been trying to get in touch with him since about 2:30 and wasn't able to reach him, so I'm not sure what happened. I'll jump on this again first thing in the morning.

co-worker
UT Lead

First, She asked me to help out that day at 10AM, I moved about 10% between my other work because she never told me that there was a Friday morning deadline. She also neglected to mention while assigning blame that she had been sitting on those aforementioned incidents since July 3. She said she contacted me at 2:30 but it was really past 3:30 because I was only away from my desk 3:30-4:30. The only thing she didn't lie about was the fact that she tried to contact me multiple times. She IM'd me at 3:30, called my desk and cell phone at 4:00 and I came back at 4:30 and she was already out of the office.... boy that was some high priority stuff if she had to leave the ofice at 4:30... She left a message asking if I was going to finish it up last night... Finish up the work she should've finished earlier... The next morning, I IM'd her...

Me[10:12 AM]:
regarding the whole consumer trial confusion
Me[10:12 AM]:
I apologize my cell phone was off because i forgot to turn it back on after changing the sim yesterday afternoon
Me[10:13 AM]:
I saw the vmail notice on my desk phone this morning
Me[10:14 AM]:
I know you're busy, but please instead of putting the blame on others who were just assigned the work that day when incidents had been sitting around since the third of July, please try to avoid blaming others. That really made me look bad, but I didn't even know things were sitting around for so long or that the deadline was this morning exept in your voicemails.
Me[10:17 AM]:
After applying my full concentration it only took me 2 hours to move 75% of the incidents. I am not sure why more didnt get moved from July 3-19
co-worker[10:22 AM]:
no, IM isn't broken, I was working with Anastasia. she was in my cube.
co-worker[10:23 AM]:
I didn't blame you. You need to reread the email. I simply said I didn't know what was going on with you because I coudln't get a hold of you.
Me[10:24 AM]:
"[Me] was supposed to have been helping me and I'm not sure what happened."? that's not blaming me?
co-worker[10:24 AM]:
more didn't get moved prior because I've been working on 10 different things at once. I picked away at it. And I starte4d with 200 and got it down to 66 yesterday, so please don't think I left you do it all. I was working on it all day yesterday as well.
co-worker[10:24 AM]:
no, that's not blaming you.
co-worker[10:24 AM]:
I'm sorry you feel that way.
Me[10:25 AM]:
sounds like it to me, and the other people who read the email.... If they took it like blaming me, Sarah could easily take it that way too
Me[10:25 AM]:
it's not just me
co-worker[10:25 AM]:
Sarah needed to know why it wasn't all finished by this morning.
Me[10:26 AM]:
and I was the reason
Me[10:26 AM]:
accoring to that sentence
co-worker[10:26 AM]:
I told you to make it your number 1 priority, did I not?
Me[10:26 AM]:
right, still blaming me
co-worker[10:26 AM]:
again, i'm sorry you feel that way.
Me[10:27 AM]:
....If you needed this done, you should've been up front and told me they all needed to be moved by friday morning in the first place. I had planned on finishing them all during the day this morning because there weren't that many. And I did get them done. In 2 hours.
co-worker[10:28 AM]:
I told you to make it your number 1 priority. I didn't tell you to do it by Friday morning because I knew I'd be finishing it up last night.
co-worker[10:29 AM]:
I didn't think it was fair to ask you to do it all, nor did I think you'd have the time.
co-worker[10:29 AM]:
you got them done in 2 hours because I moved 130 yesterday.
Me[10:30 AM]:
I moved about 60 in 2 hours. They had been sitting as early as july 3. I'm glad you moved 130 on July 19.
Me[10:31 AM]:
I know you're not going to reword what you said in the email or make it seem like the blame isn't mostly mine as it appears in the email so the damage is done
Me[10:31 AM]:
the work is done now
co-worker[10:31 AM]:
FYI, Sarah didn't say she wanted them moved to defects until last Friday, and intern stuff blew up along with other UT stuff this week. That'w why nothing was moved over until yesterday.
co-worker[10:32 AM]:
Feel free to let Sarah know how you feel. I unfortunately don't have time to argue about this any more as there are other things I need to get done.
co-worker[10:32 AM]:
If you want to talk about this further, please schedule a meeting for Monday.
Me[10:32 AM]:
I'm done, don't assign blame recklessly

So she didn't tell me to finish everything by Friday, but in the email she was clearly blaming me for not doing enough as why it wasn't done by Friday? That hardly seems logical. If she wanted it done by Friday she should've said something or done something on her own from July 3-19...

I sent an email to my manager because what she did and her lack of accountability is completely unacceptable. Unfortunately, my manager is out of the office until Aug 1.